I am looking for people to review a Tengwar mode for Irish. If you're interested, please write to me privately. I'd prefer it if reviewers really knew...
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Patrick H. Wynne
pa2rick
Aug 8, 2003 12:16 am
In _The Lord of the Rings_, the "Huorns" are sentient, shadowy trees, who lurk in the less savory corners of Fangorn Forest and, thanks to an abiding hatred of...
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Edward J. Kloczko
laurifindil
Aug 8, 2003 10:08 pm
... Not quite, not quite. ;-) ;-) ;-) Several years ago, I came to the same conclusion as you, cf. my book "Le dictionnaire des langues des Hobbits, des Nains,...
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Hans Georg Lundahl
hglundahl
Aug 10, 2003 12:59 pm
Patrick Wynne wrote: "Here phonology provides the probable answer; for on analogy with the cognate pair Q _róma_ 'loud sound, trumpet-sound' = N _rhû_ (in...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Aug 10, 2003 10:43 pm
I would like to extend Pat's comments with two of my own: First, a chart of the phonological developments from Primitive Eldarin to Noldorin or to Sindarin,...
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Edward J. Kloczko
laurifindil
Aug 12, 2003 5:34 pm
Patrick H. Wynne wrote ... No, all the US publishing houses I have approached have declined it because of the usual copyright problem. ... No I haven't gone...
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Edward J. Kloczko
laurifindil
Aug 12, 2003 7:01 pm
I bought last week a new book in German by W. Krege, the translator of LOTR into German; he has done a new translation of the book. His book, or should I shay...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Aug 27, 2003 5:37 pm
In an etymological note on the Quenya name _Itaril(lë)_ (S _Idril_) in the late (c. 1968-69, see XII:331) essay _The Shibboleth of Fëanor_, we find the...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Aug 28, 2003 1:33 pm
... While I'm not aware of any language having a 'tense' stem dichotomy, forming participles from aorist stems *instead* of from present stems, Old Greek and...
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Pavel Iosad
pavel_iosad
Aug 29, 2003 12:40 pm
Hello, ... A somewhat similar situation obtains in Russian. Even though Russian does not possess the necessary distinction, still a correlation between the...
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Hans Georg Lundahl
hglundahl
Aug 29, 2003 4:06 pm
Wrote CHF in Pavel Iosad's post: "What I'm trying to get at is some indication of how likely it is that a language that has a clear present participle vs. past...
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cgilson75
Sep 13, 2003 3:09 am
Occasional discussion here of the nature of the influence of Finnish on Qenya eventually led me to my university library to reconsult their copy of the first...
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Petri Tikka
petristikka
Sep 13, 2003 3:30 pm
... Which it does not. The use of both _w_ and _v_ to represent the same sound is only from cofusion of orthographies. Old Finnish spelling (before the...
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Pavel Iosad
pavel_iosad
Sep 13, 2003 5:03 pm
Hello, Christopher Gilson wrote an fascinating essay on Kalevala influence in Tolkien's early Qenya. Among other things, he noted the apparent relationship...
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Hans Georg Lundahl
hglundahl
Sep 15, 2003 7:05 pm
... Actually, in books printed in Gothic (Blackletter) style, 'w' was the norm in Swedish, like it still is in German and Polish. In books printed in Antiqua...
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cgilson75
Sep 19, 2003 2:09 am
Pavel Iosad wrote: "A further twist is added by the fact that the Finnish word [_kulta_ 'gold'] is one of the numerous loans into Finnish from very early...
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Petri Tikka
petristikka
Sep 19, 2003 2:17 pm
... Indeed it is. Relating to this issue, I think it would be interesting to find out all possible Finnish lexical influences on Qenya from the _Qenya...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Sep 20, 2003 7:23 pm
... In full knowledge that such 'irregularities' derive from earlier regularities (a point not in dispute, I know), which only reinforces the point made on...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Sep 23, 2003 11:48 am
Once again, I'd like to set out and give a few comments on Arden R. Smith's excellent and interesting column in VT, "Transitions in Translations". In numbers...
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Hans Georg Lundahl
hglundahl
Sep 25, 2003 1:09 am
... In 1938 some German censors were asking Tolkien if he were _Arisch_ and Tolkien ridiculed the idea of asking it by _regretting_ to admit he had no Jewish...
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cgilson75
Sep 25, 2003 1:48 am
Petri Tikka wrote the following, to which I would like to add some further notes on the occurrence of these forms in the Kalevala excerpts in C. N. E. Eliot's...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Sep 25, 2003 12:11 pm
On Mittwoch, September 24, 2003, at 07:10 Uhr, Hans Georg Lundahl ... I don't think German editors are asking that *now*. Indeed, I don't think this has...
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Hans Georg Lundahl
hglundahl
Sep 25, 2003 6:23 pm
... What about the Shires of the Carolingian Empire encompassing both France and Germany (contemporary to the Shires in KIng Alfred's England)? That would be a...
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cgilson75
Oct 2, 2003 3:15 am
Naffarin Thinking about the conceptual stages of Tolkien's private languages that preceded QL led me to take another look at Naffarin. All that remains of...
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Beregond. Anders Sten...
j_beregond
Oct 2, 2003 11:06 am
... It seems to me possible that _-far-_ is inspired by the Latin defective verb _fari_ 'speak'. If the preceding element reflects Latin _novus_ and English...
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Arden R. Smith
erilaz7
Oct 3, 2003 3:36 am
... But _bosh_ (in English at any rate) means 'nonsense' rather than 'speech'. In light of that, I wonder whether _Naffarin_ might not be derived from the...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Oct 3, 2003 11:59 am
In a letter to VT (published in #36) Anthony Appleyard looks, inter alia, at the QL entry _velike_ 'great' [VT36:34]. He notes the obvious resemblance to...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Oct 16, 2003 8:51 pm
An authorial note to the c. 1959-60 essay "Quendi and Eldar" describes what Tolkien calls "a primitive past tense" formation, "marked as such by the 'augment'...
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Pavel Iosad
pavel_iosad
Oct 16, 2003 9:49 pm
Hello, ... With this, one has to compare Welsh _cathl_ 'hymn, lay, song'. Together wth [Old] Irish _cétal_ it points to an earlier *_knt-l-_ (syllabic nasals...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Oct 17, 2003 2:31 pm
... I think it's possible to interpret _onen_ (LR:1036) as < *_a-ân-en_ suggesting that _-e_ was at least at home in the 1sg. Perhaps we even have to posit an...
